Cillian Murphy's New Netflix Film, Steve, Reveals a System Near Collapse

Oct 3

Cillian Murphy returns to the classroom—this time as the teacher barely holding the day together—in the trailer for Steve, a Netflix drama adapted from Max Porter’s Shy.

Directed by Tim Mielants (Small Things Like These), the film reframes Porter’s novella as a high-pressure day at a last-chance reform school in mid-’90s England, with Murphy’s headteacher battling institutional collapse, fraying authority, and his own intrusive doubt. The trailer tees up that pressure cooker in clipped confrontations, quiet hallways, and a drumbeat of choices that can’t be deferred.

Tonally, it’s not promising catharsis so much as endurance, and Murphy leans into that, teasing a performance built on clipped patience, brittle kindness, and the constant scan for what’s about to go wrong.

Steve initially made a limited theatrical stop on September 19, 2025, before hitting Netflix on October 3, 2025—timed perfectly for a fall audience primed for tense, prestige dramas.

Watch the latest trailer for Steve below.